Most people cannot imagine coveted childhood fairytale with pure sadistic characters, blood, death and neglect. Disney motion pictures have depicted their classic fairytales by painting picture of princess with a loving parent, a dead parent, and a wonderful outlook on life with just the hope of dreams coming true. Many people cannot fathom the idea of a beloved fairytale containing the dark acts of rape, torture, and cannibalism. After all, Snow White’s apple was just meant to put her to sleep; and Sleeping Beauty did find her prince right? Wrong. In the original Grimm Fairytales Snow Whites apple was meant to kill her for good and Sleeping Beauty’s prince was more of a rapist who impregnated her as she slept. Although the Grimm’s fairytales seem to be a much more disturbing version of the Disney films, maybe these stories taught some higher morals and lessons. Or is Disney’s replacement of lessons with idealism and imagination better? In both the Grimm and Disney versions the story of Cinderella is a tale of mistreatment, spite, and a rescued escape. In both versions Cinderella is made to become a servant in her own home. The Grimm story continues with far-reaching detail of the harsh abuse and cruelty Cinderella endures. Disney reduced these harsh acts by describing Cinderella as a harmonic young woman who had friends in the animals occupying the house. In Disney’s version, no matter how hard she worked, Cinderella was always presentable. She sang of her dreams coming true which appeared as a motivator for her not to give up hope and continue to be kind. The Grimm version of the tale differs in this area. Before her passing, Cinderella’s mother tells her that if she continues to be the kind soul that she is then God will always help her and that she will watch down on her. This happens to be Cinderella’s real focus for continuously doing good deeds. Disney’s version of the tale...

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The fairy tales that we grew up with are not the originals. Disney and the brothers Grimm had two very different versions. While many of us grew up watching cute birds and mice following the woe begotten princess, the original stories were forgotten by most. These stories were far darker, ending in cruel justice for a stepsister or worse. The difference between aspects of the two tales discussed, in some instances, is the difference between night and day. Grimm fairy tales contain more violence, harsher villains, and swifter justice.
The first example of this can be seen in the difference between Disney’s and Grimm’s versions of Cinderella. In the Disney version of the story, Cinderella is a poor girl who lives with her stepmother and sisters. She wishes to go to the ball and she falls in love with him before running off to make her curfew. Then of course, he comes to her rescue and everything ends happily ever after. The good characters are good and the bad characters are bad. There is a happy ending and no one really gets hurt in the end.
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Walter EliasDisney was born on December 5, 1901 to a German-Irish-Canadian-American family who lived in Chicago, Illinois. He had three brothers and one sister. His mother was a German-American woman named Flora Call Disney. His father was an Irish-Canadian man named Elias Disney (Encarta Encyclopedia 2).
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...﻿The implication for the failure of the European Disney
From the aspect of organization’s value creation model
As learning from the class, business value may be created by Labor practice improvements, Human Rights initiatives, and Environmental improvements. For the European Disney, it does not satisfy these three things.
In the Labor practice improvements, because of influence for the traditional mindset of Disney, the appearance of employees should observe the rules by the company strictly. For example, the men’s hair needs to be cut shorter which cannot touch the ear. Besides, the males are forbidden to have beard and their tattoo cannot be shown. Females can only use the minimal makeup and not allow their hair dye. In addition, Disney only offers the 50 lounge for drivers and more than 2000 of them need to rest. All of these above worsen the labor practice, which lower the motivation for the employees leading the value of Disney decreasing.
For the human right, Disney makes a big mistake. Without doing the research, they consider culture of the European as they thought and do not offer the breakfast and alcohol drink which irate the French. These details in reducing the human right weaken the value of Disney gradually.
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